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Why is it that Australia do not bother with tryouts for these comps unlike the USA. Canada and Japan and every other country involved in the Uni games

To the person backing Brewster on every thread needs to realise that their child has a lot more to improve on if she wants a spot in teams like these.
So many more girls above her.

Give her credit she has improve a hell of a lot at college but still isn't up to the standard on the girls in her position.

The young side finished the tournament off on a high after dispatching Canada 79-52, with Darcee Garbin leading the way with a game-high 21 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. She received great support from Lauren Scherf who delivered 15 points and 10 rebounds with 3 steals, while Kristy Wallace chimed in with 12 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals.

Emerging Opals finish Four Nations Tournament with a 2-1 record

Comment @ 19:18
Sad you assume Parent would continually 'self-promote'
Wrong tree buddy, move along

Brewster is playing a poor conference in a weak team in college hence why her stats look good, OK player but not at the level of some of these girls and ones left behind

BA should have tryouts for these uni teams, only good thing is because their is an age restriction they do change rosters .

btw Utah State Women regularly had the youngest Div 1 starting lineup in the COUNTRY last season..not just the conference 4 Freshman & a sophomore
& beat every team in that conference with a few Aussies who should be on the 'Emerging' radar

Totally a Brewster parent or fan, no one has really ever heard of her till this and the WNBL thread.
Credit though she has improved but is she at the standard of the other players in and below her age group.
No, so stop pushing her name here.

I don't think Turner played in the pre tournament ??
Injured ???

Agree re Turner, but Brewster has never been in that calibre of elite players, and still isn't, don't get misguided by the stats that may come from such a weak conference, it would be the equivilant of Yth league not even champ Yth league.

Non of the players currently in that level here or even the champYth league are even close to being at the level required for inclusion into a national side.

But agree BA should look at others apart from those who attended AIS in their junior years, Panousiss is another, played in good conference but in a weak team, got to put up good numbers at college level against the weaker teams in ACC but failed dismally against any decent guards, too slow and no defence at all, yet there she is in the uni team.

Not a lot anyone can do, it's BA that needs to take the blinkers off, this is why try outs for such teams should be conducted

Would Brewsters mum/dad give it a rest lol

I wonder how free the coaches are to pick players OUTSIDE the COE.

If the majority of the team came from outside the COE then that would basically shoot down any credibility the COE has, in which case the government might as well cut its funding dramatically or even shut it down. (That's a much easier option than to actually FIX the damn thing - I agree with a lot of contributors on here that the COE just isn't producing the skilled players we would expect for the money, and that Oz needs ifor it's teams to succeed.)

Given how much money has been poured into the COE, I would expect BA to be under a lot of government pressure to make it look like it was a good investment by selecting heavily from the COE. Otherwise, I could see an embarrassed government cutting funding to basketball very quickly (& probably very happily).

Cof E don't get the funding they previously did it is all performances based now, hence why it's no longer called the Australian Institute of Sport, but it's not based on the performance of those at the C of E but on the sport over all at international events so unless they start to rethink their usual nepotistic selection path then they will be finding less and less funding will be going their way

They need a complete overhaul, only problem is most who get the jobs up there will now have kids of their own or BFFs kids they wish to push , how often are we now seeing familiar surnames in these lists, or ones with connections to the former glory day players, just because the parent could play does not automatically equate to an elite level offspring......so it will unfortunately most likely continue on this same path.